CRS Rice Bowl

CRS Rice Bowl (not a Special Collection) is a Catholic Relief Services Lenten program of prayer, fasting, learning, and giving. The educational materials assist ongoing parish and school efforts in developing a spirituality of justice and solidarity with those most in need. Donations help fund CRS development projects in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America to produce more food, increase income and address poverty. 25% of contributions remain in this archdiocese for grants to parishes and organizations that help the poor in Western Washington.

CRS Rice Bowl

CRS Rice Bowl CRS Rice Bowl (not a Special Collection) is a Catholic Relief Services Lenten program of prayer, fasting, learning, and giving.

Catholic Relief Services Collection

March 21st - 22nd, 2020
(March 13th - 14th, 2021)

The CRS collection provides funding for Catholic Relief Services, USCCB Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development, relief work of the Holy Father, CLINIC, and USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services and Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church. The annual collection is taken up on Laetare Sunday, i.e., Fourth Sunday of Lent.

CRS Collection

CRS CollectionThe Catholic Relief Services Collection is an important opportunity to express Christian compassion and generosity.

The Holy Land Offering

April 10th, 2020
(April 2nd, 2021)

This Pontifical collection is for the support of the Holy Places, but above all for those pastoral, charitable, educational and social works which the Church supports in the Holy Land for the welfare of their Christian brethren and of the local communities. Materials provided by the (Franciscan) Commissariat for the Holy Land each year are posters and a letter to pastors. Parishes are asked to request a Good Friday donation envelope in their packets from their envelope companies each year.

Holy Land Offering

The Holy Land OfferingOn Good Friday, all Christians are united in a special way to the Holy Land. Donations on Good Friday make a direct impact on the Christians living in the Holy Land. Parishes should send a check for the total contributions, for “Holy Land Collection,” to the Missions Office.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development Collection

September 14-15, 2019
(September 19th – 20th, 2020)

Through the archdiocesan CCHD collection in September, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development provides grants to
groups of low-income people working for social change and also educates Catholics about Catholic social doctrine and
its applications. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by
funding community programs that encourage independence. You are essential to its success. Your generous donations will
give those in poverty the support they need to make lasting changes.

World Mission Sunday

October 19-20, 2019
(October 17th – 18th, 2020)

Annually, World Mission Sunday is celebrated in every parish in the world on the next-to-last Sunday in October. As described by Pope John Paul II, this celebration is "an important day in the life of the Church because it teaches how to give: as an offering made to God, in the Eucharistic celebration and for all the missions of the world."

World Mission Sunday

Society for the Propagation of the Faith Serves over 1,100 of the poorest dioceses around the world — Asia, Africa, remote regions of Latin America, the Pacific Islands — where the local Church depends on “other lands” much as this Archdiocese did until 1908. Learn more from the SPOF website.

The Church in Central and Eastern Europe(U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops - USCCB) Rebuilds the Church’s outreach, social ministry and ministerial formation. Learn more from the Church in Central and Eastern Europe website.